Again, I think you guys might be misunderstanding what I was complaining about. The length of a whole line can essentially be stretched out by adjusting the scaling of the PDF image before you print it. But the spacing between notes within a measure is what appears cramped to me. This is also a function of what you print it out on. Things look a little better on the HP Laserjet 4p at work then my Epson 640 inkjet printer at home. I think from what someone else had posted yesterday that you can adjust the note-to-note spacing, so maybe this isn't a valid complaint. I few "helpful hints" on how to do that, if it is indeed possible, would be very welcome.
BTW this is one of the things that a lot of GUI music notation software has quirks about. Guitar Studio was especially "over user friendly" and would not let you do what you need to do. Others that I have tried are a bit better. I do like having the program adjust the spacing for you, as long as you can go back and tweak it to make it look nicer. abc2Win or abc2ps (not sure which is being used where, sorry) on my work and home computers (both 500MHZ Pentium III, AGP video machines running Win98 with screen resolution set to 800 x 600 pixels) produces rather cramped measures in my opinion. This is obviously a personnal preference thing, so I was inquiring if these tools allow you to setup "preferences" or if you can pre-program the note-to-note spacing withing the abc text. Some some step-by-step instructions on where and how to setup "preferences" would be helpful to me, but I will go read through the abc2ps documentation when I get a chance. Don John Walsh wrote: > >The only part of ABC that I could see that would affect how "cramped" > >together a peice of music would look in staff notation is the length of > >individual lines. Most ABC to Staff converters I know of do not break > >lines of ABC into multiple lines of staff notation. Obviously, the same > >piece of music is going to look more cramped if written as 2 lines of 8 > >measures than 4 lines of 4 measures. > > > > If you check out the documentation to abc2ps, you'll find a number > of ways to control the note spacing--it recommends putting well-chosen > linebreaks in the abc, but that can be overridden, and there are a couple > of parameters that can be adjusted and some command-line options, e.g. > one can specify the number of bars per line. > > One possibility which I have found useful elsewhere, and which > might be worthwhile adding, is to specify the total number of lines for a > tune, leaving the line-breaking decisions to the program. (I have > absolutely no idea how easy/difficult this is.) > > Cheers, > John Walsh > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
